Coronation Street Episode Review Friday 28 March 2025

Good evening.  I never seem to know if I am going to be here or not.  And then when I am I was somewhere else.  Daisy is fuming that Jenny has apparently come into money and has not told her so is not being that nice this morning as Daniel tries to get Bertie ready.  Tracy and Amy have stayed at the flat overnight as they could not stay at Number One (we see the boarded up front door later on).  Bertie has a mother's day card for Daisy.  We are then reminded that Daisy had a baby brother Tom who called daffodils "dilly daffs".  Tom never appeared and died in a tragic accident a little while before Jenny returned to the Street.  Bertie has to go to the dentist and Jenny Daisy has to go to the hospital.  Daisy says she will ask if Jenny can take Bertie.  Jenny pops in on Carla to offer her the £60k as part payment on however much she owes.  Carla is not accommodating and tells her to sell the pub and pay in full - use the cash as part deposit for a business loan and give me my money now.  Jenny goes, Carla picks up her phone by Lisa has not responded to any of her messages.  Jenny collects Bertie in the cafe and tells Daisy that Carla knows Daisy can no longer pay the money back (because it went to David to pay Harvey in case you were asleep).  Bertie takes a football to the dentist and when Jenny gets distracted by a phone call he starts kicking it against the wall.  The next thing Jenny knows is that Bertie is no longer visible and we can guess that he has slipped up the ginnel between Street Cars and the Metcalfes' house - but of course Jenny does not have the advantage of the map I have in front of me. The great Bertie hunt commences with Amy and Tracy getting involved.

Lisa has to admit to Betsy that she is concentrating on her and not Carla at the moment - Betsy is not stupid and points out that Rob would be enjoying this and she knows Lisa's phone is pinging and not being answered.  Betsy tells Lisa to talk to Carla, do not let Rob win.  Lisa returns to the flat and apologises - she spent the night in a hotel but barely slept.  Lisa admits that she does not need space - she needs Carla.  So that reconciliation worked.  Carla loves both mother and daughter and knows it is a package deal and she does not want to replace Becky.  Lisa is of course struggling with Betsy being in hospital because of her actions.  And Betsy has yet to be told.  Carla says that Betsy will come round - and if they can get through this they can get through anything.  

Steve is on the cab office switch when Tim arrives to say that Sally has left a book of inspirational quotes in the toilet and he has read it ten times.  Cassie comes in and having missed the bus wants a cab into town.  Steve says her custom is not welcome but Tim offers to take her.  Tim asks Steve if he can sit in their house as he is expecting a Mothers' Day present to be delivered from Rosie and Eileen will be on the switch shortly.  Steve is offered a pint which makes up his mind.  As a parting shot before slamming the door Cassie tells Steve that she cannot keep apologising.  She is stuck and will be around - could he just get used to it?  At Tim's Steve gets to read the book and we are shown "Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself" and "No matter how much you focus on the past, there is nothing new to see".  Steve invites Cassie round to the Metcalfes and he says he was out of order before.  He accepts she is trying and after a few cracks he gets one of Cassie's warm smiles as she knows he is missing her.  The next we see they are coming downstairs in the Metcalfes' dressing gowns.  Something escalated.  And the hot tub looks very inviting.  In the back Bertie's ball has made it into the tub and Bertie cannot reach it.  {Historically comments have been made about the tub water being cold but there is definitely steam coming off it tonight}.  Cassie and Steve emerge into the garden before any harm is done.  Steve then comes onto the Street in the dressing gown, waves at Jenny and she goes into the Metcalfes' house.  The spectacle is witnessed by Amy, Glenda and Summer.  Cassie has Bertie wrapped in a towel.  He was not in the tub for long and indeed his hair does not look wet.  But of course it brings back some traumatic memories for Jenny.  Daisy takes Bertie off to be checked.  Tim comes back and finds a "your parcel is at the sorting office" notice through the door and that Steve and Cassie are wearing dressing gowns whilst Jenny and Daisy tear strips off each other.  At the hospital Bertie wants a wheelchair!  There is nothing wrong with Bertie.  They go home. 

Michael is back from holiday so the family are around Dee Dee as she gets some Braxton Hicks and has a hospital visit and comes to the realisation that James and partner raising the child of the devil in the United States might be a better solution so all the applications are going to be made as he and Danny will make brilliant parents (and of course can have regular head transplants).  The family celebrate in the Rovers.  Can someone remind me are Glenda and Michael still a thing?

With Tim kicking off, Steve has second thoughts and kicks Cassie into touch.  She agrees it was a mistake and goes.  Tim pulls on rubber gloves and says he is going to fumigate the entire house.  

Back at Number One Tracy receives a phone call - no charges will be brought as Rob has admitted that he threatened her and has admitted everything.  Tracy is a little surprised Rob has told the truth.  Tracy soon hears that Cassie and Steve were together in Tim's house so she is going to kill him.  Amy cannot stop her mother.  Steve has gone into hiding but when he returns to Number One instead of being the hero of the hour Tracy calls him a snidey little git.  He would need a wash after being with that skank again.  Steve says it was a one-off and it won't happen again.  Tracy says it had better not or his life is not going to be worth living - she will see to it.  

Lisa comes into Betsy's room and confirms that all is well with Carla.  Betsy can still feel nothing but Lisa is sure feeling will return.  However Lisa has something to explain and tells her how events took place inside Number One and so she did not wait for backup because Carla was in there and recounts events.  She had her finger on the trigger as they struggled.  Betsy just listens and says she does not blame Lisa for the gun discharging - but Betsy asks if she had thought about being shot herself and leaving an orphan.  Betsy accuses her of wanting to be hero and has a right go at her mother.  As anticipated if Lisa does not care about her then Betsy does not want anything from her mother and gets up unaided.  Back at Carla's flat Lisa confirms she has told Betsy and from the tears Carla guesses that it did not go well.  Carla assures Lisa that Betsy will come round over time although Lisa says she can see Betsy's concerns. 

Jenny comes back to the Rovers with a determined look on her face as she takes a bottle of wine through to the back.  Daisy joins Jenny in the backroom and reports Bertie is fine.  She tells Jenny that she cannot be trusted around children.  She warns Daisy not to mention Tom, but Daisy cannot help herself.  Jenny tries to get Daisy to calm down.  It does not work.  So Jenny says that her memory of what happened to Tom was that she did not leave him on his own - he was with Daisy and she has spent 12 years pretending that she does not blame Daisy.  But she does. It was Daisy's fault.  Daisy is finding it hard to believe.  Daisy said she was 16 which is old enough to look after a younger brother.  for two minutes whilst Jenny went into the house for her purse.  Jenny says she asked Daisy to mind Tom - but Daisy does not remember that.  She does remember talking to the lad next door.   Flirting throws back Jenny.  Jenny will never get married, have children because Daisy deprived her of those moments.  Jenny took the blame because she did not want Daisy to feel bad.  So as Daisy could not look after her brother for two minutes, 12 years ago, she is not cut out to be a mother at all and it is just as well that she lost her baby.  Daisy retreats, the door is slammed.  Back at the flat Daisy makes a phone call asking for help with something.

Too many hospital visits, too much shouting, too much falling out, not enough making up.  And frankly it has been a pretty awful week all round.  I apologise if my views are out of sync but I am currently struggling with the gap between reality and what is happening in Weatherfield.  I am not sure I can care about James and Danny wanting to be parents out of nowhere or the passing of Tom suddenly being brought into focus.  Quite who owns the Rovers and how a business loan will solve someone's financial problems all get lost in the morass.  Will management please take a step back and take out 50% of the stories and tell the remaining 50% with care and time and deep involvement of cast members so that we can believe in them?  At the very least there is simply no possibility that Betsy would have been in the ginnel as the police would have cleared it long before they went in and before the armed officers arrived, neighbouring properties would have been cleared.  It did not happen that quickly and Kit was there well before the armed response.  

Written by Stacey-Lee Brennan and Steven Fay.  Directed by Gary Williams.

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